how often do you go to the cinema? the poll!!

[hotvans]

our local cinema is an annoying multiplex but only £3.50 before 5pm - so me and mr hotvans go on sunday afternoons if theres something good on - nice and cheap and lovely blue slushy things are on sale too

 

[stdPikachu]

Well, I went to go see the new Wallace and Gromit last weekend (it was ace, BTW!) and IIRC before that the last film I saw at the flicks was a Adaptation/Eternal Sunshine double bill.

I used to go alot more, but now I have a nice home setup with surround sound and disposable income for DVD's (plus snacks that don't cost a fiver apiece, a complete lack of idiots in the audience and a pause button) I rarely see the point anymore. I'm often tempted to go see repeat showings of older films on the big screen though, simply cos some movies just look amazing that way - 2001 is a good example.

 

[Bomber]

Only multiplexes available nearby, so the films I would go to see I have to wait for on DVD usually. I go to the theatre more often nowadays !

 

[kyser_soze]

I'm tempted to do the whole home cinema./surround thing but until I can afford a 40"+ TV it's out of the question.

 

[Major Tom]

Cinemas are shit - such tiny little screens and nearly ten quid to get in!

And if by chance there is ever a good film on - it's never on for very long and I usually get to miss it.

I still manage to get out to the cinema occasionally - the latest Romero, I decided, needed to be seen on the big screen. Before that I saw H2G2 movie which was pretty awful.

Usually wait for a film to come out on DVD and rent it - saves a fortune in money, and we get all the extras too.

 

[stdPikachu]

I'm tempted to do the whole home cinema./surround thing but until I can afford a 40"+ TV it's out of the question.

Meh, I just use my computer. Nice 19" CRT and some decent surround speakers didn't set me back more than £175. I have another computer hooked up to the TV downstairs, and when I can afford it I'm gonna buy a nice 32" widescreen job and see how that seems.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I'm a friend of Dalston Rio, for £15 a year, you get two free tickets (equivalent in value therefore to the £15 you've just paid) along with a quid off most performances. Now that it's been refurbished with comfy seats along with a decent enough sound system, it's a great little place, and it's also managed to sort out the mix between big blockbuster movies that it needs to show to compete with multiplexes against also showing smaller independent movies & other more interesting things - it has annual Turkish and Kurdish film festivals, a Saturday morning kids show, good double bills on Sunday afternoons, good coffe and tasty cakes and I love it.

 

[Griff]

Hardly ever these days, just can't be bothered with some of the crap that comes out, just wait till the DVD comes along.

Did go and see 'The Business' with a mate a few weeks back which was good after a few beers.

 

[marty21]

I'm a friend of Dalston Rio, for £15 a year, you get two free tickets (equivalent in value therefore to the £15 you've just paid) along with a quid off most performances. Now that it's been refurbished with comfy seats along with a decent enough sound system, it's a great little place, and it's also managed to sort out the mix between big blockbuster movies that it needs to show to compete with multiplexes against also showing smaller independent movies & other more interesting things - it has annual Turkish and Kurdish film festivals, a Saturday morning kids show, good double bills on Sunday afternoons, good coffe and tasty cakes and I love it.

i'm a friend too it's a great cinema

 

[Rocket Romano]

I try to avoid mainstream cinema, like the Odeon, Warner Bros, UCI etc

I enjoy going to the Tyneside Cinema, mainly foreign films, arthouse, documentaries and stuff like Downfall that the Odeon doesn't bother showing.

Plus the Tyneside's Screen 1 has a bar in it and airplane seats. Fell asleep during The Pianist

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

In the UK - about once a month on average.

In china - not that often... there's only one cinema that shows films in English/with chinese subtitles, and it's quite expensive in local terms, and quite far, so in fact I've only bee once in the past two years, to see Batman BEgins...

Everything comes out on DVD within a few weeks here anyway...

 

[belboid]

Cinemas are shit - such tiny little screens and nearly ten quid to get in!

eh? eh, eh, eh??? Tiny screens? <auybe in some of em, but those out of town monsters have gert big things. And are only a fiver round here anyways.

 

[Firky]

used to go every week about three years ago, at port solent for free (knew a lass that worked there), but now i perhaps go every quarter

 

[Firky]

I try to avoid mainstream cinema, like the Odeon, Warner Bros, UCI etc

I enjoy going to the Tyneside Cinema, mainly foreign films, arthouse, documentaries and stuff like Downfall that the Odeon doesn't bother showing.

Plus the Tyneside's Screen 1 has a bar in it and airplane seats. Fell asleep during The Pianist

Tyneside Cinema is really fucking good, Newcaslte's great - I just wish more people would realise that

*thinking about returning to his home ground*

dunno if i could live in the west end of toon again... cruddas park

 

[WasGeri]

the cinema is a warm and dark place which sends me to sleep. ZZZZZZ.

Yeah, I have that problem as well. Likewise the theatre

Although I also fall asleep watching films at home. The only thing I can do if I want to stay awake is to see a film mid afternoon!

 

[Firky]

I can remember when it cost me 80p to see a film at Morpeth Picture House

Now its some shit night club full of school kids

 

[miss giggles]

Oh dear, I just voted in the poll. I seem to be the bad apple